'Hotel Cluny, Paris'. 1835. 
 

Biography

James Holland (18 October 1799 – 12 February 1870) was an English painter of flowers, landscapes, architecture, marine subjects, and a book illustrator. He worked in both oils and watercolours and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society.

He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 and in 1830 visited France and made studies of its architecture. In 1823, he exhibited a picture of 'London from Blackheath'. In 1835, he became an associate exhibitor of The Society of Painters in Water-colours, but he left the society in 1843, and joined the Society of British Artists, of which he remained a member until 1848. He rejoined the Watercolour Society in 1856, and was elected a full member two years later.